GmorkAt least it's his job to do this. Some people do this without getting paid.

Dinkin FlickaIf you need to be paid to say the right thing, you are an idiot.

Gmork"Saying the right thing"? You mean "saying a commonly held opinion (transformer movies are high budget garbage) in an especially vitriolic, embarrassing way".

Dinkin FlickaEmbarrassment is irrelevant. It takes courage to make a fool of oneself.

infinite zestSo Dark of the Moon was the really shitty one that people who kinda liked the first one said was shit, right? Because I kinda want to go see the one that came out today. It's playing near my house and it's 4 dollars, and there's Dinobots and the guy from Silicon Valley and Marky Mark.. and there's Dinobots,

infinite zestwhoops just checked metacritic. It's already one of the lowest rated new releases, joining the ranks of Adam Sandler's Blended and Tyler Perry's Think Like a Man Too.

Dinkin FlickaNot even worth . Even if it's free, it's your time expended. Read a book.

I'm afraid this is going to reach you too late. And not be quite persuasive enough.

MeerkatDinkin Flicka is afraid it's not going to be quite persuasive enough.

infinite zestI was wrong and they're showing Jodorowsky's Dune for another week. Another movie I won't see because I don't like movies about movies that won't get made (see Lost in La Mancha.) Is it really that bad? Chances are I'm going to have to see it anyway with one of my clients later this week but I'm pretty good at tuning things out if I'm on the clock (X-men for example, despite my low expectations, was really fun despite the sentinels not looking like sentinels at all, and Captain America was pretty fun. But I'm working, so it's not like I'm going to get high or anything beforehand.)

Growing up with an older brother who religiously watched Transformers, I was a bit too young, and the one Transformers toy I got for Christmas was some battery-powered thing whose legs broke immediately, so my toys were half-broken hand-me-downs like a Starscream with no wings or a Cobra Commander with no head. I was only 4 when the Transformers movie came out, so I couldn't go. But the Dinobots were so cool. They didn't choose sides and also they were ROBOTS and DINOSAURS. It's really hard to fuck up such a simple formula. If anyone can do it, it's Michael Bay, but I was impressed by Pain and Gain, liked The Rock and kind of even liked Armageddon and the Bad Boys movies. When I watched the original Transformers Movie (in college) it was mostly because of its ironic use of "The Touch" in Boogie Nights. Now it's come full circle and Dirk Diggler is the protagonist in a Transformer movie.

PegLegPeteI watched Transformers 2 in the theater. It is the worst movie I have ever seen (relative to budget etc...), all of his criticisms are at least partially valid. It is the ballad for the collapse of western society. One long gauche ballad of indulgence, objectification and insanity.

infinite zestBay gets a lot of shit that a lot of other directors get praised for. Example? Elite Squad. Good movie filled with action and explosions and it wins the Berlin Film Festival. Director goes on to direct Robocop. Auto fail because haters hated months before it even came out. Or Zach Snyder with Watchmen. People are conditioned to hate on shit which clouds their objectivity.

If bay pulled an Alan Smithee and put someone else's name on this, like so many other reboots, it'd probably be getting better reviews simply because it wasn't Bay.